The Rotunda in the Black Fen Pleasure Ground
THE ROTUNDA IN THE BLACK FEN PLEASURE GROUND
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1066002
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- The Rotunda in the Black Fen Pleasure Ground
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROTUNDA IN THE BLACK FEN PLEASURE GROUND
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1066002
- Date first listed:
- 01-May-1960
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 22-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Rotunda in the Black Fen Pleasure Ground
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ROTUNDA IN THE BLACK FEN PLEASURE GROUND
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE ROTUNDA IN THE BLACK FEN PLEASURE GROUND
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Barwick in Elmet and Scholes
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 41360 40835
Details
BARWICK IN ELMET AND SCHOLES BRAMHAM PARK SE44SW LS23 SE413408
8/20 1.5.60 The Rotunda in the Black Fen Pleasure Ground (formerly listed as Temple Item 15/169 at Bramham Park in C.P. of Bramham cum Oglethorpe)
GV I
Garden Temple. Mid C18 possibly by James Paine for George Fox-Lane, 2nd Lord Bingley. Sandstone ashlar. Circular Ionic temple. Circular 3-step podium; colonnade of 16 unfluted Roman Ionic columns supporting entablature, pulvinated frieze and heavily modillioned cornice. Inner drum with rusticated base and sill band decorated with Greek Key ornament. Doorways to north-west, facing house, and also to south-east, facing obelisk (q.v.) down tree-lined avenue, have architraves, pulvinated friezes, casement moulded cornices and are flanked by blocked windows with architraves. Moulded cornice from which springs ribbed vaulted ceiling to columns. The central drum rises higher than outer circle and has cornice, blocking course and lead dome. The detail is very fine.
Part of a formal early C18 garden laid out to a plan c1725-8 by John Wood for Robert Benson, 1st Lord Bingley. The Black Fen Pleasure Ground is a mile distant from Bramham Park. It is divided by alleys and vistas radiating from round points. From the Rotunda 6 avenues fan out linking with the obelisk (q.v.) and the Temple of Leod Lud (q.v.) from which other avenues fan out and intersect with each other and with avenues from other points.
English Heritage, Register of Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England: Part 45 West Yorkshire, Grade I. D. Linstrum, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978) pp62-64. N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (1974) pp142 3.
Listing NGR: SE4136040835
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422465
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Linstrum, D, West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture, (1978), 62-64
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 142-3
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 45 West Yorkshire,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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